About the Artwork
Double Effigy Vessel
late 19th century
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African
Mangbetu
Earthenware
Overall: 23 3/4 × 10 3/8 inches (60.3 × 26.4 cm)
Ceramics
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art
76.80
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Paul Tishman, East Hampton Tishman Collection, no. 98. (Alexander-Suggs Gallery, Inc.)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Kan, Michael. Detroit Collects African Art. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 21-May 29, 1977, no. 122, p. 65.
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Mangbetu, African, Double Effigy Vessel, late 19th century, earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, 76.80.
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